Posted on 11/28/2021 7:41:17 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Democracy isn’t as popular as it used to be. Take the Oroville City Council’s overwrought recent declaration that it’s a “Constitutional Republic City,” which is steeped in creeping disregard for a once-presumptive American ideal.
“NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED by the Oroville City Council that the City of Oroville is declared to be a Constitutional Republic City,” thunders the resolution, and “that any executive orders issued by the State of California or by the United States federal government that are overreaching or clearly violate our constitutionally protected rights will not be enforced by the City of Oroville against its citizens.”
Oroville’s resolution, like much of this strain of politics in California, betrays a literally unhealthy obsession with bucking Gov. Gavin Newsom’s coronavirus precautions as an affront to some constitutional or republican principle. But Newsom’s executive orders are all based on law and subject to review by the courts on constitutional and other grounds, as more than one legal challenge has shown. And the truth is that the governor has embraced his decisive empowerment by the people haltingly compared with many of the state’s own local officials in the Bay Area and Southern California. A purely republican approach by the governor, one embracing the principle of representative democracy, would show less deference to those jurisdictions on one hand or to the likes of Oroville on the other. The council’s resolution was passed to cheers and plaudits, providing an apt example of the facet of democracy the founders really feared: the temptation to demagogues who would pander to crowds to further their own interests regardless of the public’s. Local politicians in Oroville and beyond should expend less of their energy inventing imaginary republics and more of it serving, representing and keeping the one we have.
(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...
Oroville-future capital of the state of Jefferson.
Oroville city flag to be banned.
The author is obviously an left wing libturd idiot. One could stop reading this article as soon as they see its from the Sacramento Bee, and if they do stop then, you’ll not have wasted 5 minutes of your life reading this progressive twaddle.
Sac Bee says, “Governing yourselves is ‘undemocratic’.”
GEAUX OROVILLE!!!
Somebody had to do it!!
I’ll summarize the article: executive power is grand so long as I agree with the end result. People who resist it through democratic means suck.
Typical leftist viewpoint. What it left out was was the hope that those who disagree get rounded up. That’ll be next week, I guess.
With all respect to the folks in Oroville, you need to spend time rounding up uhauls. It won’t be long till the left decides that kulaks can’t be tolerated.
And exactly when did we pass an Enabling Act for this governor?
America is not a democracy. The living hell we are going thru now is an example of how a democracy works, or rather, doesn’t. Demo= mob rule, kinda like letting any of the commie trash that support* BLM/Antifa in charge.
* BLM as it is, not as you fantasize it is.
The Dead Kennedy’s had California pegged over 40 years ago. Lyrics….
I am Governor Jerry Brown
My aura smiles and never frowns
Soon I will be president
Carter power will soon go ‘way
I will be Führer one day
I will command all of you
Your kids will meditate in school
Your kids will meditate in school
California Über Alles
California Über Alles
Über Alles California
Über Alles California
Zen fascists will control you
Hundred percent natural
You will jog for the master race
And always wear the happy face
Close your eyes, can’t happen here
Big Bro’ on white horse is near
The hippies won’t come back, you say
Mellow out or you will pay
Mellow out or you will pay
California Über Alles
California Über Alles
Über Alles California
Über Alles California
Now it is nineteen eighty-four
Knock-knock at your front door
It’s the suede denim secret police
They have come for your uncool niece
Come quietly to the camp
You’d look nice as a drawstring lamp
Don’t you worry, it’s only a shower
For your clothes, here’s a pretty flower
Die on organic poison gas
Serpent’s egg’s already hatched
You will croak, you little clown
When you mess with President Brown
When you mess with President Brown
California Über Alles
California Über Alles
Über Alles California
Über Alles California
Preaching to the choir, FRiend.
Where was all this hand wringing when the left proclaimed their‘sanctuary cities’?
Rules for thee but not for me say “Progressives”
It sounds like the natives are revolting.
;-)
Yes, it’s pure propaganda.
Describe authoritarianism/dictatorship as Democracy and repeat that lie often enough that eventually, it becomes the truth.
Its the same playbook leftists/communists/nazis use no matter what government they’re trying to overthrow or what population they’re trying to enslave.
The Media really hates it when people wake up and throw off their shackles.
“Sac Bee says, “Governing yourselves is ‘undemocratic’.””
Did it say water is dry too?
These leftists are masters at twisted logic and double-think.
The Babylon Bee is far more credible than the Sacramento Bee . . . and better writing as well.
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